Takashi Asano, P.E.
Professor Emeritus
Civil & Environmental Engineering
2001 Engineering III
(530) 753-2193
tasano@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D. 1970 Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor
Professor Asano received the Stockholm Water Prize in 2001 for his theoretical and practical contributions to wastewater reclamation, recycling and reuse. He has served in a wide variety of international, national, state, and local roles to explore and develop wastewater reuse as part of overall engineered environmental and water resource systems.
Professor Asano has more than 35 years of academic and professional
experience in environmental and water resources engineering.
He was a faculty of Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana,
and Washington State University, Pullman, Washington during
1971-78. During 1978-1992, he served as the Water Reclamation
Specialist for the California State Water Resources Control
Board (SWRCB) in Sacramento. He conducted major water reclamation
and reuse studies at the SWRCB and the University of California,
Davis. His research for the last ten years on the quantitative
microbial risk analysis was awarded the 1999 Jack Edward McKee
Medal by the Water Environment Federation (WEF), which was shared
by his colleagues, Professors Edward D. Schroeder and George
Tchobanoglous, and his former graduate student at the University
of California at Davis, Dr. Hiroaki Tanaka of the Public Works
Research Institute in Tsukuba, Japan.
He was a U.S. representative for the International Association on Water Quality as the vice chairman, and is the honorary chairman of the Specialist Group on Wastewater Reclamation, Recycling and Reuse. He served as the chairman of the scientific and technical committees for the First International Symposium on Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse in Castell Platja d' Aro, Costa Brava, Spain in September, 1991, and the Second International Symposium on Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse in Iraklio, Greece in October, 1995. Professor Asano taught at the NATO Advanced Study Institute at Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, and was the invited speaker at the Stockholm Water Symposium in Sweden. Professor Asano served as the Kubota Endowed Chair Visiting Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Tokyo and the Nishihara Endowed chair at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.